Makaio is "officially" ours

We went to the Civil Affairs office today to make Makaio's adoption official. You have 24 hrs to spend with the child and determine if you want to move forward and adopt or terminate the adoption.

We signed our all papers in about two minutes and answered the following questions:

1. Do you want to adopt this baby? Yep!
2. Do you promise to never abandon him and give him a good education? Yep!
3. You can go now. Wow!

This was followed up by going to the notary and them asking the same questions, and us providing the same answers. After the notary they put red ink on his foot and stamped it on our paperwork.

It was quick and very simple. When we were done we went shopping at a store called Carrefor. It's basically a Chinese Walmart. We bought some stuff for us like coffee (only instant over here, but not bad!), water, coke, and sprite.

We went back to the hotel, quick bite to eat and everyone layed down for a nap. We all slept for 4 hours, we are exhausted and the time change is killer. We were up for a walk, picked up our laundry, got some fried rice and dumplings, and gave Mak his first bath. This went very well! He actually didn't want to get out.

Mak is sick right now. You can hear and feel the congestion in his chest. Our guide brought us two different types of Chinese medicine, one syrup and one that goes on his belly button. We gave him the syrup and put patch on his belly button last night. He hasn't coughed once and you can't hear him wheezing. Chinese know their meds!!!

Today is medical exam day, they will test his hearing by banging on a drum, test his vision by running back and forth to see if his eyes follow and get a TB test.

My plan today is to get many pics of Guangzhou. I have told many of you before that it reminds me of New Orleans and it still does.

Love,
Matt, Tami, Kei, and Mak